80 T Magnet Operational Performance and Design Implications

The US National High Magnetic Field Laboratory constructed and tested a stand-alone 80 T prototype magnet. The activity was in support of the insert magnet development project for the US-DOE-NSF 100 Tesla Multi-Pulse Magnet Program. The 80 T magnet assembly was developed to simulate the physical conditions an insert magnet would encounter during peak field operations at 105 T... The design incorporated further improvements to the engineering template developed from the 65 T and 75 T pulsed magnets now in use at the NHMFL Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Two coaxially nested solenoid coils comprised the 80 T prototype magnet design. The windings are in series electrically. The inner coil is constructed with materials & techniques identical to those in use for the 100 T insert program. The outer coil is a conventional winding. The prototype was successfully trained to a peak field of ~80.4 T. 80 T pulsed operations were repeated until the coil assembly faulted after 10 full-field pulses. Post-fault inspection of the magnet assembly indicated that the outer magnet winding failed structurally. This paper will present an overview of the 80 T prototype´s design, construction, and performance. A review of the magnets failure mode will be presented. Additionally, we will discuss new design criteria for stand alone high-field pulsed magnet based upon the 80 T prototype experience.